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My
place of employment always hires extra help in the Spring; this year
was no different, but for once we got some help in my department. I have
a tendency to not want the new people to go through the same
exclusionary practices that I experienced, so I say hi to them or at
least treat them like they are part of the team (Yes, that means I
torment them just as I would do anyone else.) One
day as I was passing through the lunch room I see one of the new guys
reading his bible. I stopped momentarily to ask what he was reading. I
understand the sarcastic response is “a bible” but without explaining my
question, which I suppose I should have, the question was more
specifically meant to be, “what are you studying and what are you
getting out of it?” I remember that he was reading out of the gospel of
Luke. I did not know at that time that he was coming to my department. Why is any of this important? For one, I have learned that there about six people who work there that claim …

One
of the things you come to understand in reading Wild at Heart, by
John Eldredge, is that you have a good heart. That is of course is
contingent upon your relationship with Jesus Christ. (I have a
tendency to learn and change my opinion as I write. I think one of
the reasons that I write is that I am working through things in my
head and heart. The goal of course is to produce more and better
fruit, kind of like pruning, for Orange trees only produce fruit on
new growth and pruning is the best way to evoke that new growth.) I
believe that the context for the good heart comes from multiple
sources Matthew 12:35 or Luke 6:43-45 and Genesis 1:31. Genesis
1:31 NASB God saw all (that
included man in his image) that He had
made, and behold, it was very good. And there was
evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Luke
6:43-45 NASB "For there is no good tree which produces bad
fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good
fruit. (44) "For each tree is known by i…

The
mens' group at the church I attend had at least one man attend the
“Band of Brothers” boot camp. He in turn began to get others
excited about it. Many of us have decided that they wanted more and
we have chosen to stop playing church and be the church God called us
to be. More, seems to have come through the author John Eldredge. Meeting
in small groups, this is the first book that we, as a group, read,
Wild
at Heart Revised & Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's
Soul by John
Eldredge (Apr 19, 2011). I found this book to be a very emotional
journey for me but you have to understand that I had reached a point
in my life in which I had become desperately sick of the pain inside
and the fear filled life I lived. I
am sharing this with you because the battle for the heart and mind is
common to all of us. A friend of mine who had already been to this
“boot camp” was very excited about the changes he was
experiencing in his own life. I was hooked because something had …

About Me

I have a couple of daughters. Two AS degrees but no bachelors degree. The longest time I spent at any one job was 15 years. I have not been the great success I had dreamed I would be, but I find that I am becoming more content. The most important thing to me any more is God's word. It is my passion. I am often thoroughly disgusted with the lack of enthusiasm that, so called Christians have for God's word. If the only person they destroyed, because of their lack of learning was themselves then I suppose that would be okay, but by spewing out things that are wrong or ridiculous they take others down with them.